Apparel corset



June 3 924.

D. K PS APPARELI CORSET Filed May 25, 1923 ?Sheets-Sheet Patented June 3, 1924. l,496,578 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL KOPS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNO'B TO KOPS BROTHZEBS, INC., OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

APPABEL CORSET.

Application filed May 25, 1923. Seria] No. 841,320.

To all 'whom'z't may concern: edges of the garment and are provided with Be it known that I, DANIEL Kors, a citizen pockets at their edges Which are Secured to of the`United States, residing in the borthe body of the garment and are adapted ough of Manhattan, City, County, and State to receive the stay members in such a. manof New York, have invented an Improvener as to permit the Stays to have a lateral 60 ment in Apparel Corsets, of which the folplay, as Will be hereinafter more particularly lowing is a specification. V described.

y present invention relates to an ap- In the drawing: parel corset and more particularly to the Fig. 1 is a perspective view illustrating closed back type of such garments. I am the use of the garment constructed in ac- 65 aware that heretofore in order to efi'ect a cordance with my present invention. yielding of the garment to the movements Fig. 2 is an enlarged elevation showing of the body of the Wearer and to cause the that portion of the garment in Which the garment to conform to the body of the Strip of yieldng material is placed.

wearer and to permit the same to ield F g. 3 is a section on line 3 3, 'Fig. 2. 70 With themovements of the .body o the F ig. FI is an elevation of approximately Wearer in predetermined positions corsets one-half of a corset garment made' in aoof this type have been provided with cordance With my invention. A strips of elastic or other similar yield Fig. 5 is an elevation of' a portionof l.

ing material suitably placed and extending strip of yielding material Which is employed 75 from the upper to the lower edges of the to form the elastic or yielding insert of the garment. SO far as I am aware, however, garment, and in all instances of this kind the elastic or Fig. '6 is an elevation of a short section yielding strips have been so positioned as of webbing employed in carrying out my to extend in straight up and down positions present invention.

and the yelding strips at the edges thereof The garment made in accordance with this have been connected directly to the adjacent invention com rises a body portion 10 havedges of the body ofthc garment and the ing the usual dapendingskirt section 11 and StayS employed have been fixed in pockets fitted With front steel sections having front provided therefor adjacent the edges of the steels 12 therein in the body of the garm ent 85 yielding strip inserts. In structures of this and below which there is an eye 13 on one kind due to the position in which the elastic edge of the garment adapted to engage a strips are placed and also to the manner in book in a corresponding position on the Which the stays are fixed in the pockets the Other front edge thereof, together With eyeyielding strips tend to wrinkle When the lets 14 by Which the adjacent front edges of 9 wearer is in a stooping or a Sitting position the Skirt Section of the garment may be conproducing not Only an uncomfortable but nectedby a suitable lace'. Alsoas lndicated an unsightly condition When'a tight fitting' in the 'drawing' the' garment includes 'the gown andother garmentsareworn with this customary horse Supporters indicated at 15.

40 type of corset. In' suitable positions and referably op 95 The object of my `present invention is to positely disposed in the body'of the garovercome this difliculty and in'doing so I' ment I employ strips 16 and l' of suitable have found that by placing the strips of elasticor other yielding material. The strip yielding material in such positions that they 16 is in the portion of the garmet forward diverge from the upper edges to the lower of the aXillar Section and the Strip 17 in that 1 0 edges of the garment and the stays' placed portion of the garment at the rcar of the in' the garment are permitted to have more axillar section. These strips of material or less lateral play in the pockets provided referably extend from 'the upper to the therefor that this Wrinkling condition of lower edges of the garment, and': as illusthe garment When the Wearer is in a seat'ed trated in the drawing are so placed -as to Or stooping position is entirely overcome. slightly diverge from the upper to the lower. In carrying out my present nvention, thereedges of the corset. These yielding insert fore, the vyielding Strips of elastic web or strips may be constructed in accordance With other material are Preferably so placed as the elastic web shown' and described in Let- 55 to dverge between the upper and lower terS Patent No. 1,043,525, granted November 5, 1912 in Which-the central portion of the Web Is suitably Woven With the elastic strands, and the edge portions of the Web are woven tubnlar without the elastic strands. In Fig. 5 of the drawing the centra] elastic portion is indicated at 18 and the tnbular ed e inelastic portions are indicated at 19 an 20, respectively.

In placing these elastic strips in the garment as clearly indicated in Fig. 4: of the drawing, the forward edge of 'the strip 16 is Secured to the adjacent edge of the body of the garment along a line of stitc hing indieated at 21, this line ni' stitehing passing throagh the tubular edge of the web adjacent. 'the e lazstic section thereof so that the tubular edge of the Web overlies a portion of the body of the garinent and forms a pocket for the reception of the stay 2% and the free edge of the Web may he tacked to the body ofthe garment by a line of stitching as indicated at 25. Similarly the other ede of the strip 16 is secnred to the edge of the arment alon'g a line of stitching indicate' at 22 and the outer edge thereof tacked to the garment as indicated at 23 which desigates a line of stitehin While the pocket formed in the tubirlar ege of the strip at this side thereof is adaptcd to contain the stay member 26. The stay members 24 and 26 as hereinbefore intimated are appreciably less in Width than the Width of the pockets formed in the edges of the Plastic strip made to receive the same so that these stay members have more Or less of a lateral play. that is are shi'f'tabe at'erally of the garment -as the body o the Wearer assumes different positions in the use of the garment.

In a similar manner the strip 17 is secnred in the arment'to'the rear of the a'xillar poi'- tion thereof, the inner portions of the tabular ed 'of the strip being seemed to adjacent i es of the body porti'ons of the garlnent a ong lines of stitch'ing indicated respectiveiy at 27 and 28. While the outer portions of these edges are tacked 'to the garinent along lines of stitching indicated at 29 andBO, the stay members in these' pockets being designated at 31 and 82. The same relative conditions exist between the Width of the stays 31 and 32 and the Width of the pockets in Which they are placed, that is to say these stay members are appreciably less in Width than 'he Width of the pockets in `Which they are placed in order to permit the stays to have more or less lat'eral play in the use of the garxnent. It is also to be noted, as indicated in Figs. 1 and i. that the stays 24, 16, 31 and 32 are progressively longer from the front toward the rear of the garment so that the front stay members eX- tend appreciably to the groin section of the wearer, While the Stay members 31 and 32 extend an appreciable distance over the buttocks of the 'Wearen As 'Will now be understood in the use of the gennem; made-as hereinbefore described there uflicient play between the edge portion of the elastic inserts and also in the position assumed by the stays placed in the pochets therefor by the tubular edge portions of the elastic nserts to permit the body to assume various positions including a seated position Without causing the elastic insert sections to Wrinkle but on the contrary to substantially conform at all times to the contour of the body.

In the preferred form of the invention as illustrated and hereinbefore described, the elastic inserts employed have tnbuar edges forming pockets for the stays and are placed in the garment in positions so that these members diverge from the upper edge of the corset toward the lower edge thereof, but it is to be understood that the yielding strip insert members may be constructed With a central elastic portion and inelastic edge portions Which are Woven integrally therein, that is non-elastic edge portions which are non-tubnlar and that the non-elastic edge portions of the inserts may be secured to the garment in Such 'a manner as to provide poc-kets for the stay's, and still furthermore that in Some instances the use of the stays may be entirel dispensed With, the broad purpose of the mvention being to pro- Vide a 'garm'ent with the 'Insert Strips SO made and secured therein as to provide a required stretch in certain parts of the garment When and where a tension is applied Without causing the adjacent parts of the garment to wrinkle.

I claim as my invention:

1. In an apparel garment, an elastic insert strip extending from the 'upper to the lower edges of the garment, there being edge pockets at the sides of the said strip, and sta 's of appreciabiy less Width than the Width of the said pockets inserted therei-n to permit of a lateral self-adjustment of the stays to position in the Said pockets to 'revent the. elastic insert strip from Wrink ing in the use of the garment.

2. In an apparl'garment, a body member, an elastic insert strip extending from the upper *to the loWer edges of the body member and having integral pockets extending along the oppositely disposed longitndina l edges thereof and Stays placed in the said pockets the Width of each pocket being appreciably 'greater than the Width of the stays placed in the same to permit of a selfadwstment of the stays to position in the use of the garment to prevent the elastic stri from Wrinkli'ng, theinner edges of each poc et being *connected by a line of stitching to the a'djacent edge ofa portion of the body of 'the garment.

3. In an apparel garment, a body member. an elastic insert Strip extending from the provided upper to the lower edges of the body member and having integral pockets extending along the oppositely disposed longitudnal edges thereof', and stays Iplaced in the Said pockets, the Width of eac pocket being appreciably greater than the Width of the stays placed in the same to permit of a Selfadjustment of the stays to position in the use of the garment to prevent the elastic Strip from Wrinkling, the inner c lges of each pocket being connected by a line of Stitching to the adjacent edge of a portion Of the body of the garment, and the Said pocket edges of the elastic insert member extending over adjacent` portions of the body Of the garment and the outer edges of the pockets tacked to the body of the garment by lines of stitches.

4. In an apparel garment, a body member, a plurality of elastic strip inserts extending in diverging positions from the uper to the lower edge Of the garment, there eing an elastic insert strip placed for' Wardly of the axillar Section of the garment and a similar Strip placed rearwardly of the axillar pOrtiOn of the garment and each elastic insel't strip having tubular inelastic longitudinal edge Sections forming pockets, and stay members placed in the said pockets Which are appreciably Wider than the stays placed in the same to permit the stays to be Self-adjustable to position in the pockets in the use Of the garment while the Stay members are of difi'ei'ent lengths progressively increasing in length from the ront toward the back of the garment.

signed by me this 28th da of A ril, 1923.

DA IEL OPS. 

